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change off
Idioms and Phrases
Alternate, or take turns. This phrase is used either for two individuals alternately performing a task, as in Lifting cement blocks is such heavy work that they decided to change off periodically , or for one person alternately performing two tasks, as in I can concentrate on this book only for short periods so I frequently change off and work in the garden . Also see change of pace .Example Sentences
In a major change off the pitch at the club this summer, the German has taken over from Julian Ward, whose final act was to bring in Argentina World Cup winner Mac Allister for an initial £35m from Brighton.
Of course, everyone can change off the field and learn different things.
I grabbed the change off the table and went to open the door.
Even if climate wasn’t the stated focus of Mr. Biden’s Tuesday address, administration officials said that Russia’s war against Ukraine has not pushed climate change off the agenda.
The idea that coaches, who make millions of dollars annually, could hop from program to program unfettered but their players, who only this year were allowed to make even pocket change off their own brands, were limited in their movements was absurd.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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